Polo bridle



April 27 Q1926. 1,582,635

. C. D. CAREY POLO BRIDLE Filed Oct. 6. 1925 Patented Apr. 27, W26.

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CHARLES ID. CAREY, OF CHEYENNE, WYOMING.

Pono BRIDLE.

Application filed Gctober 6, 1925. Serial No. 60,778.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES D. Canny, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cheyenne, in the county of Laramie and State of lVvoming, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Polo Bridles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to in'iprovements in polo bridles, more particularly the cavesson nose band. It is the object of the invention to produce a bridle of such construction as to make it possible to change bits quickly without necessitating the removing of the whole bridle or removing the standing martingale which is used on inost polo ponies.

The above and other objects that will become apparent as the description proceeds are attained by a construction that I will now proceed to describe in detail, reference for this purpose being had to the accompanying drawing in which the invention has been illustrated and in which:

Fig. 1 is a side view of a horses head showing the completed bridle in place;

Fig. 2 shows the. halter portion that remains after the bit has been removed,

Fig. 3 shows a perspective view of the improved bridle, and

Fig. 4 is a view showing the manner of connecting the bridle with the martingale.

lVhen playing polo, it is often necessary to change bits because of one being too severe or not severe enough. The standing martingale has to be unbuckled and the whole bridle removed. When changing bridles, the pony is liable to get away hetore another bridle can be put on him. In order to prevent the horses from getting away, I have produced a bridle that is associated with a halter which is not required to be removed from the horses head or removed trom the standing inaitingale M and which is so constructed that it cooperates with other parts to form a bridle.

In the drawing the construction has been clearly shown and comprises a crown piece 1 which is split from each end up to the point 2 so as to form athroat latch 3 and a wider cheek strap land 45'. A. brow band 5 has its ends formed into loops '6 through which the crown piece 1 passes, the throat latch 8 on the off side is longer than the corresponding strap 3 on the near side and is provided with a buckle which cooperates with holes 7 in the latter. A nose band 8 has one end provided with a buckle 9 that cooperates with openings in the end 10 for the purpose of adjustment in the manner shown. Short cheek straps 11 and 11 are secured to the nose band at points 12 and 12 and extend upwardly. Their upper ends have buckles 13 that cooperate with holes in straps & and 4. The assembly just described forms a halter such as has been illustrated in Fig. 2. This halter is so con structed that it forms the bases for the bridle with which it coo aerates and which is constructed as follows: a long strap 15 has the end on the off side buckled or sewed to the bit 16 in the manner indicated by numeral 17. This strap is passed through the loop 6 on the oil side, thence over the crown strap 1 and downwardly through the loop 6 on the near side where it cooperates with the buckle 18 that is attached to the upper end of the short cheek strap 19 whose lower end is buckled tothe bit as indicated at 20. The completed assembly, which is shown in perspective in Fig. 8, constitutes the bridle and is applied to the horse in the manner shown in Fig. 1. The loops 6 and the halter serve to hold the strap 15 from sliding forwardly over the horses cars. it it is desired to change the bits or to remove the bit entirely, this may be done by disconnecting the strap 15 from the buckle 18 and withdrawing the strap 15 from the loops 6. It is evident that this can be done without removing the halter part of the bridle so that there is no chance of the horse getting away. The long and short cheek straps l5 and 19 are attached to whatever bit is wanted and the long cheek strap is slipped through the brow band loops over the crown and buckled into the short cheek strap 19 on the near side, making the 1 Ill) Having now described the invention what I claim as new isf A polo bridle comprising, ineombination, a halter portion, and a bit supporting portion, the halter comprising a crown piece adapted to pass over the horses head, a brow band having its ends formed into loops, a nose band, cheek straps secured to the hose band, means for securing the cheek straps to the crown piece, a throat latch, a bit, a long cheek strap secured to one end of said bit, a short cheek strap secured to the other end of said bit, said long strap being adapted topass through one of the loops in the .ends of the brow band, thence over the crown piece and downwardly through the loop on the other side, and

means comprising a buckle for securing the free end of the long cheek strap to the free end of the short cheek strap whereby the bit supporting part may be removed and re placed without disturbing the halter portion.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CHARLEF D. CAREY; 

